promptdialog - Create and manipulate a prompt dialog widget

promptdialog pathName ?options?

itk::Toplevel <- dialogshell <- dialog <- promptdialog

background	borderWidth	cursor	exportSelection
foreground	highlightColor	highlightThickness	insertBackground
insertBorderWidth	insertOffTime	insertOnTime	insertWidth
relief	selectBackground	selectBorderWidth	selectForeground

See the "options" manual entry for details on the standard options.

show

See the "entry" widget manual entry for details on the above associated options.

invalid	textBackground	textFont	validate

See the "entryfield" widget manual entry for details on the above associated options.

labelFont	labelPos	labelText	

See the "labeledwidget" widget manual entry for details on the above associated options.

buttonBoxPadX	buttonBoxPadY	buttonBoxPos	padX
padY	separator	thickness	

See the "dialogshell" widget manual entry for details on the above inherited options.

height	master	modality	width

See the "shell" widget manual entry for details on the above inherited options.

title

See the "Toplevel" widget manual entry for details on the above inherited options.

The promptdialog command creates a prompt dialog similar to the OSF/Motif standard prompt dialog composite widget. The promptdialog is derived from the dialog class and is composed of a EntryField with commands to manipulate the dialog buttons.

The promptdialog command creates a new Tcl command whose name is pathName. This command may be used to invoke various operations on the widget. It has the following general form: pathName option ?arg arg ...? Option and the args determine the exact behavior of the command. The following commands are possible for promptdialog widgets:

delete	get	icursor	index
insert	scan	selection	xview

See the "entry" widget manual entry for details on the above associated methods.

clear

See the "entryfield" widget manual entry for details on the above associated methods.

add	buttonconfigure	default	hide
invoke	show	

See the "buttonbox" widget manual entry for details on the above inherited methods.

childsite	

See the "dialogshell" widget manual entry for details on the above inherited methods.

activate	center	deactivate

See the "shell" widget manual entry for details on the above inherited methods.

pathName cget option

Returns the current value of the configuration option given by option. Option may have any of the values accepted by the promptdialog command.

pathName configure ?option? ?value option value ...?

Query or modify the configuration options of the widget. If no option is specified, returns a list describing all of the available options for pathName (see Tk_ConfigureInfo for information on the format of this list). If option is specified with no value, then the command returns a list describing the one named option (this list will be identical to the corresponding sublist of the value returned if no option is specified). If one or more option-value pairs are specified, then the command modifies the given widget option(s) to have the given value(s); in this case the command returns an empty string. Option may have any of the values accepted by the promptdialog command.

Name:	prompt
Class:	Entryfield

The prompt component is the entry field for user input in the prompt dialog. See the "entryfield" widget manual entry for details on the prompt component item.

option add *textBackground white

promptdialog .pd -modality global -title Password -labeltext Password: -show * .pd hide Apply

if {[.pd activate]} { puts "Password entered: [.pd get]" } else { puts "Password prompt cancelled" }

Mark L. Ulferts

promptdialog, dialog, dialogshell, shell, widget